Westdale Junior School news

School is now closed for the Christmas Holidays.
School reopens for pupils on Wednesday 5th January.

Happy Christmas!

Labels: 2010, Christmas, holidays, notice

Term ended with a carol service at school today. All the year groups took part, as did the choir. The children in Year 3 sang Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer as well as acting our the nativity story as Year 6 read the Bible story. Year 4 and Year 5 recited Christmas poems and the choir sang The 12 Days of Christmas and The Holly and the Ivy. At the end of the service the violins played Jingle Bells and Winter Wonderland and the orchestra then played We wish you a merry Christmas.

Yesterday, some of the older choir members went to sing to the residents of St. Andrew's House. This was a super event. Lots of the old people came and enjoyed the singing and readings. We had chance to speak to the old people afterwards and there was a drink and some sweets for us too.

Labels: 2010, choir, Christmas, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6

On Wednesday and Thursday evenings Years 5 and 6 presented their Christmas production - Who's got the Xmas Factor?

The idea of the story is that God asked angels to put his plan for the first Christmas into action and, in the different scenes, angels go and help chose the characters for the Christmas story (i.e. Mary, Joseph, wisemen, etc.).

Everyone in Year 6 had a part and their acting and speaking was very good. Some also sang solo parts or in small groups. Everyone in Year 5 hard choral speaking parts which introduced the different scenes and, of course, everyone joined in to sing the songs.

The play went very well indeed on both evenings. The audience was very complimentary and several people thought this was the best Christmas production ever.

Thank you to all the adults who gave special help with the backdrop and costumes.

Labels: 2010, Christmas, production, Y5, Y6

On Sunday 21st December about forty members of the school Assembly Choir took part in the Christmas Big Sing in Nottingham. We joined in with carols like and songs including Angels from the realms of glory and songs like Little donkey and even White Christmas. Our own special song was Stable Carol. We also signed the first verse of Silent Night and listened to other choirs sing and musicians play Christmas music. There were Christmas readings from the bible and a funny story of Christmas in Wales. We enjoyed it very and the audience clapped our singing for a long time. Afterwards there were mince pies, biscuits and a drink for everyone.

LP

Labels: 2010, charity, choir, Christmas, music, report